Joint Committee Minutes 20 November 2001

This page summarizes the telecon for the Joint US/EU
Committee on Agent Markup Languages
held from 1300 to 1400 PST on 20 November 2001.
These minutes were prepared by the chairman,
but have not yet been reviewed by the participants.

Participants

Tim Berners-Lee (joined late)

Harold Boley

Mike Dean

Pat Hayes

Jeff Heflin

Ian Horrocks

Peter Patel-Schneider

Announcements

Thanks to Peter for chairing last week.

Pat noted the on-going discussion about query languages on
www-rdf-rules.

Last Week's Minutes

The minutes from November 6 and 13 were approved by those present.

DAML+OIL Submission

No URL has been officially associated for the W3C Note yet.
It's unclear exactly where we are in the submission process timeline -- it would be nice to have a final URL for the next WebOnt telecon November 29.

The W3C process for submitting notes is currently under review.
They've acknowledged our
feedback.

Datatyping

We discussed the
datatyping proposals
currently being considered in the
RDF Core WG,
which solicited feedback from
the Joint Committee and
WebOnt.

Peter expressed his primary concern that,
under the
leading S proposal,
XML documents would not be even close to valid RDF.

Proposal P is close to what's now in DAML+OIL,
but not exactly what is in DAML+OIL.

It's unclear whether any of the proposals
would support user-defined datatypes.

There was some discussion about the different value spaces
in the decimal/hex/octal example from Patrick Stickler.